They're big. They're incredibly loud. And they're coming by the billions. Meet Magicicada cassinii, better known as the cicada. Every year, a relatively small number of these insects emerge from the ...

Ant colonies operate as tightly coordinated "superorganisms" with individual ants working together, much like the cells of a body, to ensure their collective health. Researchers at the Institute of ...

Love is in the air this spring in the eastern United States, where billions of cicadas are appearing in the biggest emergence event since 2004. The insects are part of a group called Brood X — also ...

As COVID-19 vaccination continues, many of us are gearing up to come out of our shells after what feels like years of laying low. But this spring’s emergence of trillions of Brood X cicadas will make ...

Parts of Tennessee are starting to see the emergence of Brood XIX cicadas, which have been dormant for the past 13 years. The brood wasn't expected to emerge in Tennessee until around mid-May, but ...

2024 has been the year of the cicada, thanks to a double periodical brood emergence in over a dozen U.S. states. A total of 17 combined states across the Midwest and Southeast have seen the trillions ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

Can you imagine a world without any birds? If there were no birds in our environment, how would it balance between humans and ...

Trillions of periodical cicadas in two different groups, or broods, are expected to make an entrance very soon in multiple states. Once the periodical cicadas emerge, they will stay above ground for a ...

One brood of cicadas has been waiting a long time to emerge; now is their time. Brood XIX has been dormant for the past 13 years, but will soon be "screaming" their love across Tennessee. The brood is ...

In one of history’s weird coincidences, the second summer of a global pandemic brought Johns Hopkins biologist Ethan Allen Andrews out on a Baltimore lawn to watch the massive Brood X cicada mating ...

This coming May, millions of people around the United States will have front-row seats to an extraordinary entomological event: Trillions of Brood X cicadas across 15 states will emerge almost ...